[Gllug] Hi!

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On 28 Jun 2009, Matthew King uttered the following:

> Harry Rickards <hrickards at l33tmyst.com> writes:
>
>> What I want is an ascii implementation of x. ;)
>
> Well I believe there's a GGI X server, and I'm fairly sure that GGI had
> a libaa (ascii art) driver so it's probably not that much of a stretch.

The big problem here is font rendering. You basically need to give Xft a
pipeline direct to the screen (bypassing aalib), or you'll end up with
gibberish instead of text (aalib is *definitely* not smart enough to
look at a rendered image and OCR it for you!)
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